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Subj: Re: Well, it's up there, but a hobby best visited sparingly. Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 at 05:42:02 am EST (Viewed 3 times) | Reply Subj: Re: Well, it's up there, but a hobby best visited sparingly. Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 at 07:07:18 am EST (Viewed 1104 times) | ||||||
Quote: Quote: [...]would have featured in Assembled 3 had the publisher not wimped out of editing a 9000-word essay (by someone other than me) that described an Iron Man story panel-by-panel.Quote: At first I was going to ask what the point of such a thing was, but then I recalled a rather insightful web column that broke down in high detail the artist's choices in framing especially being used in the Vision series, albeit not panel-by-panel. So I can certainly imagine some possibilities there, but I don't fully blame the editor either. Shame that it played a role in scuttling the project.I never saw the article, only heard the editor's gibbering. I'm still slightly miffed that the project was abandoned after I'd put quite a bit of time into generating roughly 25% of the content. That said, it's not the most annoying thing I've suffered in terms of wasted writing work. I have one novel that's been sitting with a publisher for coming up to five years now with no progress, and not a penny in royalties from the first novel of mine that publisher put out before that, which usally means sales so low as not to surpass production costs. And then there was the guy who wanted to launch a series of books in a superhero universe made up of updated out-of-copyright characters from the 1940s. I agreed to write a 15,000 word story introducing the superteam he had planned out. When he sent me the cast list and the general plot he wanted I had to go back and agree a 40,000 word story instead to have any chance. Four full drafts later he was still not happy that I wanted to make any changes to his proposed plot (to address certain issues I felt it had) and it became pretty clear that he hadn;t thought through this whole "letting the characters in my head out of my control" thing. He abruptly dropped the project and I had wasted about two weeks of writing time and probably about 70,000 words of writing. Very annoying and a lesson for me in negotiating work-for-hire. Quote: Quote: I've enjoyed certain series but I can't feel invested in what passes for their shared continuity these days.Quote: It sounds like that's becoming more commonplace, hence they're aggressively promising a "back to basics" approach soon to combat falling sales. Somehow I doubt that means what it would have to mean to get me back after all of this time though.The publishing model of modern comics really precludes long-term loyalty building. There are still some interesting coherent series out there though. Astro City has just hit its hundredth issue (numbered vol 3 #47 I think) - intriguing because its characters have aged in real time. Quote: The TV side of Marvel is getting quite aggressive itself... the Netflix shows (expanded to include a Punisher spin-off now too, in addition to Iron Fist and the Defenders), Cloak and Dagger, Runaways and The Inhumans. That's an impressive line-up, although admittedly Runaways is the only title I actually read much of myself.I seem to be the only person appreciating what they're doing with Agents of SHIELD right now. Although if you're not watching it you should be, since they're covering your area of obsession, artificial intelligence sentience and rights, with a whole arc about LMDs and a strong perfomance from the actress who played the villain in Galavant as looking-for-answers-and-read-the-Darkhold-for-them robot Aida. Quote: I wonder if they'll have Old Lace... as I understand it, the Jurassic Park raptors were mostly puppets. Maybe they can buy one second-hand for production...They'd better have Old Lace. Quote: Quote: Well, the work-life balance problem turned out to be sudden onset diabetis.Quote: Wow, that's scary... I'm sorry to hear that. Glad that you were able to get it diagnosed though, and I hope you're progressing well.I'm certainly recovering, with performance varying from about 60% - 140% of what I've been experiencing these last couple of years. Sustained performance is still a problem though, and it has really affected my work capacity. Still, I hope to get a triple-sized Vizh-centric Untold Tales up today, so there's that. With special guest star Jarvis. Quote: Quote: Aella has probably always had the ability [to see magic], but it's never been explicitly illustrated.Quote: It's a good gimmick for her... gives her scenes a nice, unique flair and livened up the exposition with a bit of wonder. You know this writing thing pretty well.The PVB is very good practice. Quote: Quote: Yes, Hacker 9 is very pleased that he was finally able to put one over on Galactivac and the Hooded Hood.Quote: He can surely throw his head back and laugh about it, confidently.Surely. Nothing can stop him now. Quote: [The necromancer General] has a nice niche and enough ties to the wider Parodyverse to offer a bit of texture. He's really due for a bit of successful villainy to prevent him being too much of a joke, though.Quote: He did cut out my heart. How much success does he need to be a threat?It's not like you didn't get another one. Quote: Quote: Next issue: the alternative "fan" ending.Quote: I look forward to it whenever you can manage it!About two hours of proofreading and reference linkig from now, I hope. What was the name of that girl who bullied Troia as a child back on Amazon Isle? | |||||||
